Anzac day here in Australia is a big deal, kids from around the country learn about it from a young age. Arguably, we should have a place in this game along with the french. especially since one of your biggest concerns was that you weren’t sure if your target audience (american youth mostly aged 16-30) would even know much about WW1. is there a plan for an Australian army? or even an Australian military skin as part of the British?
p.s. i am still going to be loving the game anyway, but like i said i’m proud of being Australian and as this game is almost a reenactment (or at least re imagined) and memorial to those fought in WW1 it would be good to see them included.
There’s already over a half dozen threads on ANZACs.
There appears to be a skin for the Australians already from the gameplay I’ve seen.
I’d be glad to see a skin with blue puttees (the wrappings over the boot and shin) for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment as well. We fought close alongside ANZAC soldiers from Suvla Bay (Gallipoli campaign) all the way to end of the war.
They can’t please everyone though. There were so many countries involved.
They haven’t even put Canada in yet and they were the largest Dominion army in the British Empire in WW1.
Time will tell.
Better tell me why are there no France and Russia?)
Even USA made it to BF1 (big surprise! =) ), though they participated only in last year of the war. USA and Ottoman should be DLC, not France or Russia. As for australian forces… I’d really expect a themed DLC. At least skins.
First major battle with First major causalities. We could have focus on New Guinea, Damascus, Beersheba, Romani, Ypres, Hamel, Messines, Villers-Bretonneux, Mont St Quentin or the others for many reason.
However for a young nation it was the pinnacle of fire that brought 6 Colonies together. Instead of being a Victorian or Queenslander fighting in the British Army we where fighting as Australian in the Australian Army. It is also the point when Australian started to stop think of themselves as British.
P.S. You can see the transition during the war on the posters. They started off asking for volunteer for Empire, and changed to be volunteer for Australia.
Yeah Gallipoli was our trail by fire and we carved out our place in history from it. Nearly every Aussie knows it but a lot don’t know about the western front or the Middle East or Russia.
Anzac Day can only do so much to educated people, they need to go out and read journals and newspapers from back then.
I would really hope that Anzacs are a British skin with voice actors and if your squad leader is British skin you can tell him to off when he tells you take objective butter